Spent a week in close quarters with the crew, surviving solely on bar-room Chinese food – all for the sake of completing seven third-floor window retrofits on a lovely 1870s Queen Anne home in the Savin Hill neighborhood of Dorchester, MA. Curved top windows presented a fun challenge. The clients were delighted to have the modern factory-made square storms removed to reveal the original elegant design of these classic windows. Good time all around, and a successful restoration story!
News & Resources
Open Sash is featured in VT weekly, Seven Days
Posted December 15th, 2011 by Chris Pratt
Amy Lilly has written a very good article on Open Sash and window retrofits. She did a really good job navigating a complex subject and including the perspectives of the homeowner, Caroline Ablels, and the historic preservationist.
She did not interview the folks who manufacture replacement windows – they are the ones I am really competing against.
Seven Days has a huge distribution in Vermont and is known for its quality journalism nationally.
The Young People Want Action on Climate Change!
Posted December 10th, 2011 by Chris Pratt
This just in from Durban South Africa where the nations of the world are gathered to talk about climate change. No action was expected to take place and no new actions has taken place.
The big news from the conference is being made from the youth delegation that become very impatient and demanding of its elders in power who have failed in the last 20 years of negotiations.
Hear this powerful speech from a student at the College of the Atlantic.
Open Sash restores windows damaged by Irene.
Posted December 8th, 2011 by Chris Pratt
Moretown Realty Office is in the center of Moretown and was at the center of flood damage from Irene. Open Sash worked to weatherize and add glass to all 24 of the mix and match windows there.
We were able to add glass to old windows that don’t have weights and parting beads, and repaired some badly rotted windows. We were able to do all the windows in two weeks at an affordable price.
Irene’s high water mark at Moretown Realty
Windows damaged by Irene
Unidentified Hardware at 20 Vine Street
Posted December 6th, 2011 by Chris Pratt
The variety of styles, mechanisms and alterations found in old windows continues to surprise me. Usually I can identify what they are, but this one has me stumped.
These are inset in the jambs and used to hold the upper and lower sash in place. Bwhat is it called. when did they make them, and how did they work? The house it came from was built in 1907.
Front and back of sash locks? If you know, email me.
What is this called?
